{"id":49319,"date":"2025-11-14T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:27:08","slug":"city-of-plano-and-medical-city-plano-honor-life-saving-teamwork-ahead-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49319\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Plano and Medical City Plano Honor Life-Saving Teamwork Ahead of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLANO\u00a0\u2014 A Plano man who survived a widowmaker heart attack will reunite with lifesavers.<\/p>\n

In June, Plano resident Rocco Richardson suffered sudden cardiac arrest at his home. Plano Fire-Rescue EMS crews responded quickly and performed advanced life support procedures.<\/p>\n

They rushed Richardson to Medical City Plano, where doctors performed emergency heart surgery. He was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life support to sustain his organs.<\/p>\n

Doctors were unsure if he would survive the critical event. Through expert care and determination, Richardson made a full recovery. He later returned home to his family to continue his healing journey.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Joshua Chehov\/Unsplash)<\/p>\n

His wife, Deb Richardson, a City of Plano employee, said this Thanksgiving feels extra special. \u201cThis year we have so much to be thankful for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On November 16, the Richardsons will share an early Thanksgiving meal with the EMS crew. They plan to celebrate the team whose fast actions gave them more time together.<\/p>\n

Media interviews with Rocco Richardson, his physician, and Plano Fire-Rescue will be available next week. The City of Plano will provide b-roll from the Thanksgiving meal for media outlets.<\/p>\n

Outlets wanting video from the Saturday event should contact Amanda McNew to coordinate. No interviews will be conducted during the Saturday gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO\u00a0\u2014 A Plano man who survived a widowmaker heart attack will reunite with lifesavers. In June, Plano resident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-49319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}